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Shocking Advice from N.O. Priest invited to SSPX Conference Oct 10, 2019 17:25:54 GMT

Post by Admin on Oct 10, 2019 17:25:54 GMT

‘Welcome Christ to watch Impure Thoughts with you!’

Shocking Advice from Novus Ordo Priest invited to SSPX Family Conference

[Adapted from here]

We weren’t going to write another post on this issue, but what we just discovered makes it necessary.

We return once more to Fr. Sean Kilcawley, a Novus Ordo priest and “Theology of the Body” guru in the diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska. He will be speaking this Friday, Oct. 4, at the Lefebvrist Society of St. Pius X’s Angelus Press Conference on the topic of “The Dangers Lurking Online: Pornography Addiction and how it destroys Hearts, Minds, and Souls.” [...]

... even the SSPX opposes the wicked “Theology of the Body” — in theory at least. If there was any doubt whether Fr. Kilcawley’s theology might negatively influence what he will say about overcoming a porn addiction, that doubt has now been put to rest. As the semi-trad blog Catholic Truth has just made the public aware, the following video clip shows Kilcawley “giving advice” on combatting temptations against purity:

CAUTION! CONTENT NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN [Click here for video.]

Alas, the following commentary is likewise not suitable for children, as we have to quote and discuss this horrendous “spiritual advice.”

In the video, Kilcawley suggests that men who are struggling with habitual sins against the Sixth Commandment or are otherwise afflicted with temptations to purity, especially in the form of pornography, should not ask Christ for strength to fight these temptations, nor should they ask Him to take them away. He does not say that they should fly from them, either. Rather, he explains:

…a better way of approaching our temptations, instead of asking our Lord to take them away, which gives us the impression that Jesus enters into our life to take away our temptations so that we can then fix ourselves and eventually be worthy of Him to come back and enter in, is to simply invite our Lord into our temptation and into our thoughts in the present moment; to say, “Jesus, I want to look at pornography right now”, or, “Jesus, I’m having an impure thought right now. You’re welcome into my imagination. You’re welcome to watch these thoughts with me.” Because as we do that, the light of Christ can enter into our imagination, and His light scatters the darkness. In that moment in which we’re feeling unlovable or we’re feeling a need for love, that need is responded to by He [sic] who is Love, the Person who is Love, our Lord Jesus Christ. And it’s with His help that we can put our lives back in order again and live and love as we should. It’s a reminder to us that we’re never alone, that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us, and we can do nothing without Him.

(Source; 0:35-1:44 min)

What scandalous and blasphemous garbage!

To ask God to take away our temptations suggests that we think we can “fix ourselves” without His grace? Has this man lost his mind?

St. Alphonsus Liguori is the Church’s Doctor of Moral Theology. His Prayer to Our Lady contains these lines:

And since you are so powerful with God,
deliver me from all temptations,
or at least obtain for me the strength
to overcome them until death.

“There are three main things to be done”, Fr. Adolphe Tanquerey writes, “if we are to overcome temptations and make them redound to our profit: 1º we must forestall temptation; 2º fight it strenuously; 3º thank God after victory or rise up after a fall” (The Spiritual Life, 2nd ed. [Tournai: Desclee, 1930], p. 432; italics given).

With regard to fighting temptations against the virtue of holy purity, Fr. Tanquerey notes that it must be done “with determination and vigor.” He explains further that “we must turn away from them and take to flight by concentrating our attention on any other matter calculated to engage our faculties. Direct resistance in such instances generally increases the danger” (The Spiritual Life, n. 915, p. 434; underlining added).

St. Alphonsus teaches:

…as soon as a temptation against chastity presents itself, the remedy is to turn instantly to God for help, and to repeat several times the most holy names of Jesus and Mary, which have a special virtue to banish bad thoughts of that kind. I have said immediately, without listening to, or beginning to argue with the temptation. When a bad thought occurs in the mind, it is necessary to shake it off instantly, as you would a spark that flies from the fire, and instantly to invoke aid from Jesus and Mary.

(Sermon “On the Vice of Impurity”)

Not surprisingly, neither St. Alphonsus nor Fr. Tanquerey mentions anything about “inviting Jesus into your temptation” and have His light outshine the impure thought, or any such nonsense. [Fr.] Kilcawley’s counsel will keep people lingering in their temptations and quite possibly increase them.

We’ll refrain from commenting on his blasphemous proposal that Christ should be welcomed to “watch these thoughts with me.” When a Catholic is tempted and cannot flee from a temptation, he should distract himself, look at a Crucifix, or repeat the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, but certainly not “share the temptation with Christ”, so to speak.

Earlier on in the video, [Fr.] Kilcawley tells the struggling sinner that he is “already worthy of our Lord’s love”, which is a plain lie. We are not worthy of God’s love — His love for us is gratuitous, a genuine gift. There are numerous Scripture passages teaching this rather obvious truth; for example:

And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, who saidst to me: Return to thy land and to the place of thy birth, and I will do well for thee, I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of thy truth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant. (Gen 32:9-10)

And king David came and sat before the Lord, and said: Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that thou shouldst give such things to me? (1 Para [1 Chron] 17:16)

What is a man that thou shouldst magnify him? or why dost thou set thy heart upon him? (Job 7:17)

And the centurion making answer, said: Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldst enter under my roof: but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed. (Mt 8:8)

I will arise, and will go to my father, and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee: I am not worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. (Lk 15:18-19)

And St. Alphonsus wrote: “The man who has lived like a brute, does not deserve to sit with the angels” (Sermon “On the Vice of Impurity”).

That a Novus Ordo priest would offer blasphemous spiritual danger to souls is to be expected. The real question is why the Society of St. Pius X thinks this man is suitable for instructing their adherents on anything related to holy purity, or anything spiritual, for that matter.

"So let us be confident, let us not be unprepared, let us not be outflanked, let us be wise, vigilant, fighting against those who are trying to tear the faith out of our souls and morality out of our hearts, so that we may remain Catholics, remain united to the Blessed Virgin Mary, remain united to the Roman Catholic Church, remain faithful children of the Church."- Archbp. Lefebvre 1980

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Shocking Advice from N.O. Priest invited to SSPX Conference Oct 10, 2019 20:39:26 GMT via mobile

Post by Fidelis on Oct 10, 2019 20:39:26 GMT

Archbishop Lefebvre on Theology of the Body, May, 1984:
“You may have noticed this in the Pope’s Wednesday conferences – I don’t know if you read them – but, if you read them, you can see: for well-nigh five years almost ad nauseam, he has spoken of the theology of the human body; we have really had our fill of it, we must say. There is no ascetical theology in it, and for him it seems that marriage will be sublimated right up to heaven and become, I don’t know, some sort of celestial mysticism. Incredible! Incomprehensible!
I don’t think anybody understands what he says; so mysterious is all this theology of the human body. One searches in vain for the old asceticism. All he does is praise marriage, praise the union according to the flesh, without a single mention of concupiscence, it’s unbelievable, since we must never forget that even after receiving Baptism, as St. Thomas says, we still have four profound wounds in our soul. He calls them the fomes peccati (remains of sin), which are: ignorance, malice, weakness and concupiscence; these are the four wounds which remain in us and of which we stand in need of a cure, and for this cure we need the merits of Our Lord. Well, all that is over with, finished. They say Baptism remits our sins and, most importantly, makes us members of the Christian community. There it is, exactly like the Protestants.
Now this different vision of Christian spirituality is exceedingly grave because it excludes once and for all the Cross, it excludes sacrifice, it casts aside the Cross and the Sacrifice and the Redemption of Our Savior.”

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Shocking Advice from N.O. Priest invited to SSPX Conference Oct 12, 2019 2:47:25 GMT

Post by Elizabeth on Oct 12, 2019 2:47:25 GMT

St. Matthew Chapter 5:

[26] Amen I say to thee, thou shalt not go out from thence till thou repay the last farthing.

[27] You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not commit adultery.

[28] But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.

[29] And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee. For it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than that thy whole body be cast into hell.

[30] And if thy right hand scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than that thy whole body be cast into hell.

[29] "Scandalize thee": That is, if it be a stumblingblock, or occasion of sin to thee. By which we are taught to fly the immediate occasions of sin, though they be as dear to us, or as necessary as a hand or an eye.

"The inner life of another that is known to God alone becomes to a much less degree open to us through friendship. It partially fills the desire of our incomplete, lonely hearts for completeness in another. Friendship brings out the best in a person through forgetfulness of self." - St. Thomas Aquinas

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Shocking Advice from N.O. Priest invited to SSPX Conference Oct 26, 2019 19:59:03 GMT

Post by therecusant on Oct 26, 2019 19:59:03 GMT

akacatholic.com/angelus-conference-controversy-sspx-responds/

Angelus Conference Controversy: SSPX Responds

Over the past couple of months, unrest has been growing in traditional circles over news that the Society of St. Pius X has invited a Novus Ordo priest, Fr. Sean Kilcawley, to speak at its annual Angelus Press Conference, which will be held this weekend in Kansas City.

Fr. Kilcawley – “an internationally-recognized specialist on Catholic anthropology, focusing on the problem of pornography” (according to a bio provided by conference organizers) – will speak on the topic of internet pornography, its ubiquitous presence, and how to safeguard oneself and one’s family against it.

Well, that unrest erupted into a firestorm over the last couple of days thanks to a video that has surfaced of Fr. Kilcawley offering the following advice to those addicted to pornography:

… simply invite Our Lord into our temptation and into our thoughts in the present moment. To say, “Jesus, I want to look at pornography right now.” Or, “Jesus, I’m having an impure thought right now. You’re welcome into my imagination. You’re welcome to watch these thoughts with me.”

Much has already been written by others about this situation. My purpose here is to provide readers with a response from the Society of St. Pius X.

This morning, I spoke with James Vogel, who serves as Editor-in-Chief at Angelus Press and Director of Communications for the SSPX United States District. He’s also one of the key organizers of the annual conference.

Before we get to that conversation, let me say that I join those who find Fr. Kilcawley’s presence at the Angelus Conference both disturbing and perplexing.

For one, while Fr. Kilcawley is being relied upon as an “expert” in the field of pornography, with relevant experience in the field of counseling, one has to wonder what he brings to the table that isn’t readily available from priests of the Society. Surely the SSPX has their own professors of moral theology and priests who are well-versed in providing spiritual direction.

In my candid discussion about this, and other troubling aspects of this situation, with James Vogel today, it became apparent that he, and others involved in the planning of the conference, are genuinely convinced that Fr. Kilcawley is uniquely qualified to address the topic at hand for the benefit of those in attendance.

I’m hard pressed to see it that way, but one thing is certain, the Society’s own priests have something that Fr. Kilcawley obviously does not have, and that is the most valuable thing of all; namely, knowledge of and love for Catholic tradition. (And isn’t that precisely what the Angelus Conference exists to celebrate and inculcate among its attendees?) If he did have a love for tradition, he wouldn’t be “a nationally recognized speaker on Theology of the Body” (see his bio on the Diocese of Lincoln website).

Mr. Vogel let me know that he is aware of these concerns and others that are being expressed by so many. He insists that he and the SSPX “take them seriously and have every intention of addressing them.” More on that momentarily.

He did make it known, however, that there will be no changes made to the program in light of the current controversy; i.e., there is no chance that Fr. Kilcawley will be disinvited or otherwise replaced on the Conference schedule at this late date.

This year’s conference will not be video streamed as in years past, but Mr. Vogel did say that Angelus Press plans on posting the audio of Fr. Kilcawley’s talk online next week, and he wants to encourage all interested parties to listen to the presentation firsthand before making a firm judgment on its merits.

He went on to say that Angelus Press also hopes to produce a podcast next week that will address this matter further.

He also let me know that “the content of Fr. Kilcawley’s talk has been thoroughly vetted;” i.e., a transcript has already been submitted to the SSPX for review. This, he stressed, is not something that they required of him alone, rather, it has been a longstanding procedure for all of the conference speakers to submit their transcripts ahead of time.

While he was able to express confidence that the talk contains nothing objectionable, I spoke with Mr. Vogel about the risk of giving what looks like the Society’s endorsement of Fr. Kilcawley’s broader work; e.g., his repugnant suggestion that one would do well to invite Jesus to watch pornography with them.

In response, he made it clear that while they are prepared to answer for the content of the conference itself, the SSPX “does not endorse any of our speakers’ work in its totality, regardless of who they are.” He went to explain that such would be impossible for practical reasons, but especially given the present crisis and the wide range of opinions on important topics that exist among persons of good will.

I get that, to a point; in fact, I made a similar disclaimer in the first issue of The Catholic Inquisitor. Even so, I discovered after we spoke that the bio provided by Angelus Press informs readers that Fr. Kilcawley is the theological advisor for an outfit called IntegrityRestored.com.

While this may not be an endorsement properly speaking, it does provide the group with a certain amount of exposure and prestige that they simply do not deserve. For instance, any innocent soul that visits their website will be treated to large doses of “Theology of the Body” by – you guessed it – “Saint” John Paul II. God forbid!

In conclusion, though we don’t exactly see eye-to-eye on this and certain other matters, James Vogel takes his role in communications for the SSPX very seriously and he’s always a gentleman. I was surprised that he was able to make time to speak today; with the conference about to commence, I know for certain that he’s as busy right now as ever.

Even so, he made it a point to express his gratitude for having been reached and given the opportunity to address these matters such as he has at this juncture. He even went so far as to invite readers to contact him directly (his email address is jvogel@angeluspress.org) with any questions or specific issues they’d like to raise.

Although he pledged to reply accordingly, he did ask for some patience given that the Angelus Conference is about to kick-off, demanding his full time attention for the time being.

We’ll keep an eye on this situation and follow-up next week as warranted.

Last Edit: Oct 26, 2019 19:59:56 GMT by therecusant

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Shocking Advice from N.O. Priest invited to SSPX Conference Oct 26, 2019 20:10:43 GMT

Post by therecusant on Oct 26, 2019 20:10:43 GMT

...by the way, I presume that this would be the same Louie Verrechio, the same website "AKA Catholic" who challenged anyone out there to point out to him what Bishop Fellay or the SSPX had done wrong? The same one who said:

These, my friends, are not just rhetorical questions. Justice demands that Bishop Fellay’s accusers meet them with concrete answers.

To be very clear, it’s not that I’m on “team SSPX” or “team Fellay.” I’m on “team Catholic.” ...if a day should ever come when it becomes objectively clear that the Society is compromising doctrine, or putting false obedience above Truth, then rest assured that I will spare no effort in condemning their errors. If you, dear reader, happen to be among the “resisters” and have any doubts about that, try me by producing something more substantial than blind conjecture.

The same man who received a long, detailed "concrete" answer from me showing him plenty more than mere conjecture, spelling out to him the compromise in doctrine; ...but who couldn't be bothered to reply. That one. "Try me," he said. We did. I don't think any of us need take him too seriously from now on. He's like so many others, all talk and no trousers.

(See Recusant 40, article entitled "Has Bishop Fellay Been Wronged?" p.20 here: www.stmaryskssspxmc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/The-Recusant-40.pdf )

Last Edit: Oct 26, 2019 20:13:28 GMT by therecusant